Twitter, Inc. has taken to legacy broadcast media for the first time with a new television commercial that allegedly is meant to highlight their new Moments feature. Allegedly is the key word, because the ad channels the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson and drug fueled binges. The new Twitter ad first debuted during the World ...

Disgraced former Mt Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles was rearrested on fresh charges in Japan Wednesday with reports that that at least some of the stolen Bitcoin from the exchange was spent on hiring prostitutes. Karpeles had been previously arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in July on charges of “fraudulently producing and ...

We live in a digital age where our data can cross borders in the blink of an eye, but little has changed when it comes to doing the same in person in a century; to cross most country borders we require a physical passport (the current form first agreed on in 1920). But given the wonder ...

LinkedIn, Inc. continued its market-beating run in the third quarter with the business-oriented social network provider once again surpassing analyst predictions. The company booked $780 million for the third quarter on earnings of 78 cents per share, a 37 percent increase over the same quarter of 2014 and well ahead of analysts who were expecting ...

A long-rumored merger may finally be happening with a report Thursday that Google is looking to merge its Android and ChromeOS operating systems. The Wall Street Journal quotes the proverbial “people familiar with the matter” as saying that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far the more dominant operating ...

Microsoft has signed a deal with Consensys (Consensus Systems, Inc.) to develop new Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-service products and new tools for its cloud-based service platform Azure. The Ethereum based service will officially be launched at the Ethereum developer conference, DΞVCON1, in London on 10th November, and will include the flagship offerings of BlockAppsStrato, a toolkit for building ...

Enterprise security provider Blue Coat Systems, Inc. has released its 2015 State of Mobile Malware report and if you’re in the security business, let alone and end user, it makes for some disturbing reading. The core finding of the annual report found that mobile malware is more vicious than ever as mobile devices are becoming ...

A hack of a free web hosting provider has seen millions of user account details offered on the Darkweb. The hack of 000Webhost, a Lithuanian provider, was discovered by independent security researcher Troy Hunt, best known for running the service Have I been pwned?, who was contacted by an anonymous source who claimed to have ...

Cisco Systems, Inc. has acquired Cupertino, CA-based over-the-top (OTT) cloud streaming platform startup 1 Mainstream, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012, 1 Mainstream offers an automated platform for distribution of linear and on-demand content to connected devices such as digital televisions, game consoles, tablets and streaming devices. The company aims to eliminate obstacles ...

A new survey of leading executives by machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) Aeris Communications, Inc. has found that many see the value in IoT enterprise deployments, while still noting that there are significant challenges ahead. The survey polled 200 decision makers in the United States and 100 in the United Kingdom (IT managers, ...